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Biggest protest march in living memory

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by Kathy Cumming 14:01pm 01 May 2010
We expected 20,000. We HOPED for 30,000. We got nearly double that. In the biggest protest march in living memory,  50,000 turned out on Queen Street today to march against the Government's...

Mining plans slammed by world's biggest enviro group

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by Kathy Cumming 14:44pm 30 Apr 2010
Just incase you thought NZ's mining plans were going down well in the outside world, check out this scathing assessment of them by the world's largest environmental conservation authority.

The fluid definition of damage

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by Geoff Keey 11:24am 30 Apr 2010
"My idea of damage is different to yours"

2 days til mining march!

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by Kathy Cumming 14:13pm 29 Apr 2010
Just two days now until the massive anti-mining march in Auckland! Right around the North Island, placards are being painted and buses organised to transport people to the City of Sails to have...

Sexy time with fossil fuels

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by Robbie MacKay 14:11pm 26 Apr 2010

Lucy and Robyn's close encounter with coal

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by Kathy Cumming 18:27pm 23 Apr 2010
It must have looked quite a sight for people driving by. An unsuspecting corner, curving gently around a quiet part of the West coast's Buller Gorge in the early morning mist.

Sign On Ambassadors Lucy and Robyn visit Paparoa National Park

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by Robbie MacKay 14:55pm 23 Apr 2010
Sign ON ambassadors Lucy Lawless and Robyn Malcolm are in the Paparoa National Park on the West Coast for two days in and around the Paparoa National Park, drawing the link between the Government...

Dispatch from the Wild West

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by Lucy Lawless 19:29pm 22 Apr 2010
I have spent the day traveling down the West Coast of the South island with the Sign On crew, including Robyn Malcolm - a true Westie! I swear to God this coast line is the most beautiful i have seen...
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